Author of "From Grieg to Brahms" and "Beethoven and His Forerunners"
Each number of Masters in Music, complete in itself, presents a comprehensive summary of the life and achievement of one of the great musicians of the world, with 32 pages of music, those compositions being selected which, in the opinion of competent judges, best manifest the composer's genius. They are arranged for the piano or piano and voice, as the case may be. These compositions are accompanied by notes pointing out the characteristics of each selection and suggesting its best interpretation. A beautiful portrait frontispiece, quotations from the most eminent critics, and a bibliography and a list of works complete the number, forming a concise yet complete handbook for the study of the composer to whom it is devoted.
Contents
- Volume I. Mozart, Chopin, Gounod, Mendelssohn, Grieg, and Raff.
- Volume II. Verdi, Haydn, Biset, Beethoven (two numbers), and Handel.
- Volume III. Weber, Frans, Liszt, Purcell, Strauss, The Scarlattis.
- Volume IV. Rossini, Dvořák, Schubert (two numbers), Tschaïkowsky, and Bach.
- Volume V. Schumann (two numbers), César Franck, Meyerbeer, Brahms (two numbers).
- Volume VI. Rubinstein, Bellini and Donizetti, Gluck, Saint-Saëns, Wagner (two numbers).
Price, per volume of six numbers, $1.25, postpaid.
Single numbers, 25 cents each.
$7.50 secures 36 parts, comprising 1,152 pages of classical music, carefully engraved and printed, and 576 pages of instructive and interesting reading-matter, with 36 frontispiece portrait plates—1,800 pages—a musical library in itself.
We will send the complete set, express prepaid, on receipt of $2.50 and your promise to complete the purchase by five monthly payments of $1.00 each.
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